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THE SUX. BALTIMORE, TUESDAY MOItXETG. iTULY 19, 193S The Rocky Road To Dublin SUN THE tapsco, to afford a southern by-pass around the city of Baltimore, would determine the arterial road map of the Baltimore area for many years to come. The alternative merits of the northern and southern plan need to be carefully considered before such an important decision is taken. Down The Spillway management will be taking a risky gamble with a very costly investment, since in the case of a player worth $185,000 it obviously would be better to give him a full year in which to regain his pitching skill completely than possibly to ruin him for good by forcing too early a test upen him.

But nobody knows the real answers to the questions suggested by the management's "order" to Dean to pitch, by the apparent uncertainty of the doctors who have attended him, and by the showing the pitcher made against the Boston Bees. A four-hit game may provide a clue, but it does not give the full answer. That will come only after Dean has been taking his regular turn for several weeks. PaMlateri rrj Wmk IHy P.J THE A. S.

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211. SI 0.09 oaln WG3 Member of the Asociated Press The Associated lres! esclusWeljr emitted to the use for republication of all new dispatches ereiliteil to or not otherwise credited In tbls naper and alto th Irwal new publishfd lifrrln AU rlslila of republication of special dlipaicuei b-rein art also reserved. BALTIMORE, TUESDAY, JCI.Y 13. 1938 THREE BRIDGES When the State Roads Commission brought forward its $30,000,000 bridge program The Sun suggested that the bay bridge part of the scheme might well be viewed as one undertaking and the three other bridges is parts of an entirely separate undertaking. It now seems in order to suggest a further differentiation among the three other bridges.

The Roads Commission prefers to have all of them (together with the bay bridge) considered as one integrated project, this on the theory that some of the proposed structures would be more profitable than others and that the general plan would be strengthened financially by having weak and strong projects joined together in a single undertaking. Whatever the merits of this reasoning from the financial point of view, it is clear that the bridges stand on a different footing from the standpoint of usefulness, and it is important to take account of these differences. The proposed Susquehanna bridge in a class by itself for the reason that some sort of a bridge is quite evidently essential at that point and that any bridge, old or new, must carry a sufficiently heavy traffic to make it self-supporting. The same is not true of the proposed bridge over the Fotomac near Newburg. This enterprise is intended to serve a proposed north and south highway, which would follow the Crain Highway south from Baltimore and, avoiding Washington, connect with U.

S. Highway No. 1 at a point between Fredericksburg and Richmond. The traffic over this road is by no means large, and the question is whether the building of the proposed bridge, together with the FROM NEW YORK TO 1929 When Douglas F. Corrig-n yesterday brought his single-engined, obsolete plane down at Baldonnel Airport, Dublin, he had flown across the Atlantic west to cast.

He also flew backward in time to, let us say, 1929 or thereabout. Corrigan's achievement was a magnificent anachronism, which found a perfect goal in Eire, the home of unexpected and incorrigible fantasy. It would be impossible to deny that his crossing of the ocean alone, without radio, virtually without instruments, without notice or permission, and in a nine-year-old craft that even a decade ago was used chiefly for training purposes, is an adventure which excites, dazzles and rejoices the public imagination. But it is also impossible to deny that Corri-gan is today's "hero" only because his "sneak hop" from New York to Ireland terminated successfully in" fine comedy-drama style, and that it did end so because luck flew with him for 28 hours and 13 minutes over the North Atlantic. The reckless gambler who stakes everything on a long, long chance is always a wonderfully glittering figure when he scores hi onc-in-a-hundred shot.

Legends grow around him, as they are already springing up about Corrigan. We all naturally admire the man who laughs at authorities, crosses and fools them, does what they say it is impossible to do and, in general, acts cheerfully on the principle that man cannot die better than facing fearful odds and defying logic. But none of the admiration which young Corrigan receives today, and to which his good fortune entitles, can obscure the fact that his flight was harebrained and foolhardy; that it was an unnecessary throwback to the romantic era of long-distance aviation; that it proves nothing except that one man got away with it, and that it is an example that ought to be avoided. There was a time when men had to fly as Corrigan flew on Sunday, but they tried to use equipment as modem and safe as they could get. Since then all that has been learned from both the brilliant accomplishments and the tragic losses of that earlier period has been concentrated in making flying more and more of an exact intelligent business and a cooperative and responsible enterprise.

The Hughes flight, with which Corrigan's extraordinary aerial capers almost exactly coincide, was the latest demonstration of these gains. It would be funny and wonderful, too, if some confident, clever fellow in chain mail and a lance captured a machine-gun company in a modern battle, and doubtless" wc would cheer him if he did. But men interested in winning the war would never follow him. A JURIST SPEAKS Judge Eugene CTDunnc yesterday addressed the grand jury. He proposed to protect us against Communism, Bolshevism and anarchy, which he seemed to think are all identical, and he bitterly reproved those in Baltimore who have resorted to the time-honored democratic right of criticism and protest.

He said he wanted orderly processes and he applauded public officials who kick over tables when criticized. He accused the Sunpapers of hysteria and he appropriated as his own a quotation from the late Mayor Gaynor on vice which The Sun used with approval a week ago. He talked of an unfair campaign against Police Commissioner Law-son, and he eulogized Mrs. Marie Baucrn-schmidt, who has been more aggressive and persistent in criticism of the commissioner than any other citizen. He said that interest in the liquor business by the rolice Commissioner would be improper, authorizing the grand jury to investigate, and he gave the commissioner his own clean bill of health on charges of interest in the liquor business.

He said that he has entire confidence in Commissioner Lawson's official conduct and he said that the vice report demonstrated "the same laxity of law enforcement that we have had for the past generation." He became very excited over the Bouse Act, guards against illegal searches and seizures, and he remained entirely calm before the record of two recent bombings in Baltimore. In short, the grand jury was addressed yesterday by Judge Eugene O'Dunne. I Love A Parade. The staccato of drum, the thud nd sibilant ilide feet, the rumble of wheel, the undulating heads these things stir me. To be sure, in thee hurried day parade arc a complete nuisance to traffic and try the soul of thoe who art afflicted with destination and an ur to reach them.

But there was a day when time was a more graciou thin and tomorrow was always willing to take the leftover of today. Then parade were a welcome break In the dull routine existence. Traffic cheerfully stopped, grateful for the excuse; labor ceased wherever labor were reached by the vibration of sounding bras and tinkling cymbal, and the popular assembled to bank the stream of boom-a-laddie or whatever. Probably the recent death of James Harry Preston has stirred these thought. He loved a parade too.

He must have. Nothing else could explain his willing, ness to give up a good holiday (not for himself only but for all able-bodied adornment of the public pay roll as well) and tramp'about the city' street. There Ar other who will remember the Municipal Parade of the Preton regime, an annual contribution to the observance of September 12, though junt why it wa thought appropriate to that commemoration of heroism at North Point and Fort McHenry ha escaped me. There was nothing about it to remind anybody of bomb burning In air or of courageous youth lurking behind bushes to draw a bead on General Ross. It wa a pageant of civic realism, leading role being taken by platoon of treet cleaners, ditch digger, policemen, pavers, batteries of garbage cart.

fir engine and truck, detail of engineer, draftsmen and Inspector, companies of clerks, stenographer and bookkeepers. In the place of command wa Mayor Preston himself, afoot, followed at appropriate interval by heads of department and a varied assortment of municipal dignitaries. Fomp and circumstance are hardly proper term to apply to that procession. There is little about a garbage eart to suggest mediaeval splendor. Even a City Councilman' best Sunday suit ii no ubstitute for brass-spangled uniforms, glittering bayonets and dangling scabbards.

But, for all that, It wa a parade, and, if any other virtue be needed, it gave John Smith, taxpayer, an opportunity to see the beneflciarie of his enforced generosity. Dear Spillway A a purist verging on the pedantic, I have fought, at your side, the good battle of "flaunt" versus "flout." Streamlining hai aroused my ire. And my blood has boiled when Mrs. O'Ren wa mistreated by garage. But I rise in protest at your error (baseball, slang, American) on bypass.

For year we have used it at a verb In engineering report. And Webster' New International, 1934, has stamped such use with the seal ot approval. Will you do likewise? Baltimore, July 15. Jos. R.

Scum. On Consulting Wesstir, I find that he has uccumbed to the blandishment (or the insistence) of people who 'tie by-pass as a verb. But hi verdict does improvement and widening of the Crain High way, will increase it sufficiently to make the LETTERS to the EDITOR Model Railway Has Final Run bridge a self-liquidating proposition. A direct route from Baltimore into Virginia would no doubt be useful locally, and it would also draw not a few motorists desirous of avoiding Washington on the road between North and South, provided tolls were not too high. But one adverse point needs to be weighed.

Trucks this characteristic episode, one noted that this book, in subsequent printings, found space for the defense of Balli-t more iri the War of 1812, as did sundry other school books. True, the space now given is very small, but at least there is honorable mention! Matthew Face Andrews. Baltimore, July 16. not change my opinion of the word a single iota. By-pas may have been used as a verb for years in engineering reports, but, even so, such usage remain an abomination, and I should like to ee engineers and Roads Commission chair men join forces to stamp it out.

QUEEN MARIE The tour of the United States by Queen Marie of Rumania in 1926 is generally described as a farcical failure, in the course of which every publicity seeker in the country managed to 'attach him or herself to the royal train. In the sense that no substantial gain to Rumania was forthcoming, the trip was not a success, but it was that fantastic and weirdly managed tour which made Marie of Rumania a household word in the United States. She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and of a Russian Czar; she was almost alone responsible for bringing Rumania into the war on the side of the Allies instead of Germany; she had a commanding and outgoing personality. But in America she might have been just another queen had it not been for that journey across the United States, with smiles for the local gentry and no harsh words for some pretty strange characters who found the royal visit a convenient means of getting press mention. In her later years the Queen of Rumania fared badly at home.

The death of her husband, the return from exile of her son Carol and what she considered the ingratitude of Bratianu, the liberal statesman whom she had supported, were among the events which blasted any hope she may have had of wielding real power. She was connected by various political factions with every sort of intrigue, but in a country ridden by intriguers it is possible that a real desire to serve her country was wrongly judged. That she was capable of devoted service was demonstrated by her war work in the hospitals and among the sick behind the lines. She shrank from no task, however menial or revolting, and it was at that time that her essential dignity and character were best revealed. After all, it no small achievement for a woman of energy, imagination and enthusiasm to have succeeded measurably well as a Balkan queen, and to have become the central figure in a series of American plays and stories.

Had she been cast for a different role her career might have been less spectacular, but it would always have been vivid and exciting. I See By The paper that some one hs just invented and had patented a hea I rest for the use of those languid oul who like 'to get into the bathtub fo their reading. Thus the American inventive geniu fills another long-felt want. True, it is a minor want. But let ome other inventor come forward with floating ash trays, waterproof matchc and, perhaps, a floating book rest equipped with a GOOD OMEN Reports from Buenos Aires say that the Bolivian Cabinet has, accepted the preliminary accord between that country and Paraguay which was initialed ten days ago at the peace conference sitting at the capital of Argentina, and that this action at last assures the ending of the long, bitter and costly Gran Chaco controversy.

So hopeful, in fact, have the mediators now become that they predicting the conclusion of a treaty of peace by the end of the present week. For a world torn by actual wars and frightening rumors of conflicts to come, it should be a good omen, at least for the American continents', that an ancient and stubborn cause of struggle is finally yielding to arbitration. For more than a century the quarrel between Bolivia and Paraguay has kept those nations, and often their neighbors, in a state ranging from uneasiness to open hostility. The latest outbreak of actual fighting came in 1932, and the war which raged for three years in South America's "green hell" might have been taken by a wiser earth as warning of what all modern -war must be. It was for such small nations a terribly bloody and exhausting effort; it brought neither glory nor conclusive victory to either side, but only stalemate and internal upheavals.

Finally, out of sheer weariness, a truce was made in June of and the negotiations to restore peaceful relations were begun. But just as the efforts of the bigger South' American powers and of the League to prevent, and later to halt, the war had failed, so it seemed that aLtempts to bring La Taz and Asuncion to an agreement would also fail. The discussions dragged out for three years, with the nations fighting at council tables as once they had fought in the dismal jungles. But reason and persistence and pressure seem at last to have prevailed as none of the generals or armies could. It appears that now only the ratification of peace terms by the peoples of the two countries is needed.

The most rudimentary belief in human nature suggests that popular approval will be immediate and well nigh unanimous. If it is, South America, whose Chaco war was for so long one of statesmen's many burdens, may make a contribution to general hope by writing off the history books not only a war but a long-standing excuse for war. compensating device to keep it from being rocked too violently by the wave. Great It The Art Of Cajolery To the Editor or The Sun Sir: At this time the people of our country will do well to consider carefully both the observations of the great British Ambassador, the late Viscount Bryce, upon the virtues and advantages of the American Commonwealth, and, in contrast, their own observations of departures from conditions as he knew them. Says the late Ambassador, In his "American Commonwealth," after commenting that a demagogue may aspire to high executive office, but should he attain it he can do no permanent harm: "The Federal Executive no influence on legislation, and even in foreign policy and in the making of appointments requires the consent of the Senate.

That any man should acquire so great a hold on the country as to secure the election of two houses of Congress subservient to his will, while at the same time securing the' Presidency for himself, is an too improbable to enter into calculation." (II Am. Com. 448.) What a change since this was written! It was apparently beyond the bounds of possibility to the mind of the great and virttfous Bryce that a calculated and progressive assault upon American institutions, to the end of substituting a despotism for a federal republic, could be launched with any prospect of success. He seems to have believed that our citizens would be too alert to the danger of being thereby reduced to the status of impotent subjects to offer such a plan a foothold. Great, however, is the art of cajolery.

Harrison Tilchman. Baltimore, July lr. Preston Memorabilia To the Editor or The Sun Sir: The writer has read with much interest the Sunpapers reviews of former Mayor Preston's achievements in promoting the matciial welfare of Baltimore. Undoubtedly he had fare ability to develop the big plans for the greater city which he so largely helped to create; but it is worthy to note that he followed through with the smaller affairs as well. One such was a two-year appropriation intrusted to the undersigned for expenditures on American's Creed-Star-Spangled Banner publicity.

The total amount was less than $200 from the contingent fund, yet the Mayor would take the trouble every now and then to call up from the City Hall to inquire what was being done and how. This suggests the point that over and ebove the excellence of his business administration, including his remarkable control of the political bosses who put him in office, Mr. Preston was always alert to capitalize the history of the city. No other 'man the writer has known in public life was so quick to seize opportunities to advertise the historic past for the benefit of the present and future. In this respect one wculd have thought he had been born and brought up on the Plymouth Rock! Another term or two, and Mayor Preston might haye had the Battle of Baltimore writ as large in our school histories as Boston's Bunker Hill! On one occasion the Mayor senf for the representative of a textbook publisher and asked him why Bunker HiJl, an American defeat however heroic, drew two pages and there was not even a line about the Battle of Baltimore, which was a glorious American victory and not a word about the Star-Spangled Banner! He ordered the culprit to take the book out of the Baltimore schools.

Since Jolm O'Rnlllj, 1n Nw Tork ITersltl J'rlliuiiu AT 10.03 P. M. Sunday the last scheduled train of the Union Connecting Railroad, a mixed passenger and freight local, pulled into Union City. A the locomotive, No. 102, eased it line of cars Into the station it was watched with affection by a group of members of the New York Society of Model Engineers, Inc.

They had been operating expresses, locals and freight all day long in the society's headquarters in the Knickerbocker Building at 152 West Forty-second street. The group was made up of men of widely varying ages bound together by a common love for the iron horse In diminutive form. Some continued to gaze at the silent hulk of No. 102. Some looked along miles of track toward the towns of Churchville and Bridgeton.

Others stared into the rolling counny in the distance, apparently forgetting for a time that it was but a panorama painted on the wall. Each of the small-scale railroader expressed mixed feelings of sadness and eager hopes for the future of the old U. C. R. R.

For ten years they had worked hard building that railroad. It turned out to be one of the most prosperous lines in the country, adding trackage when other roads were curtailing it and constantly increa.sing car-loadings and passenger traffic. Beginning today, the model engineer will dismantle their work of years. Then they will start building a new, igor and more elaborate railroud in the society's new quarters In the basement of the same building. It will bear the same name, but no date has been set for its completion.

A model railroad is never finished. Sunday the thumbnail railroaders were bent on enjoying the last day' operations on the old line. They arriving at 9 A. M. and kept trains moving until the last run of old No.

102. George Rafferty mounted to the tower of the interlocking route system. William McAllister, secretary of the society, and other member took their places at various signal towers to await the instructions flashed to them by Mr. Rafferty in the interlocking tower. Trains rumbled over bridges and through tunnels.

Long freight grunted up grades, and an express freight roared down the main line with a cargo of fre.il string beans bound for the Union City market. At one point a locomotive drawing six coaches entered one end of a tunnel and, to the horror of the railroaders, it emerged from the other end pulling only one coach. "Train parted!" screamed a brakeman. Mr. Rafferty pushed a button in his tower, stopping power on that section of the road.

Investigation disclosed that a coupling had parted and somewhere deep in the black Interior of the tunnel were five coaches filled with passengers who might' become panicky at ny minute. It would not have been cricket for one of the operators to crawl under the mountain to locate the train fragment. Instead, another locomotive was dispatched at high speed. It slowed a it entered the tunnel and there was general relief and a lot of vice-president breathed easier when the engine came out of the tunnel pushing the missing cars. Nft a life was lost nor was a passenger injured.

and the bathtub reader will have nothing left to yearn for. moving between the South' and points north of Washington might take the new road this bridge would serve because of its easier grades. And if it should become known as a trucking road it might not get much business from pleasure carsThe questions about this bridge are by no means unanswerable, but it is clear that they deserve more careful examination than those raised in connection with the project at Havre de Grace. The proposed bridge over the Patapsco, to which the shipping interests have taken such exception, is in still another category. The question here is net traffic but' location.

This structure (or the tunnel which is put forward as an alternative) is really the keystone of the bridge arch which the State Roads Commission has proposed. It would serve first of all as a link between two water front sections which are now linked only in the most roundabout fashion. It would also be a by-pass for through north and south traffic around the congested streets of Baltimore. It represents an entirely new approach to the by-pass problem, and its adoption would serve to alter materially the character of the arterial road plan centered around the city. Heretofore the general idea has been to have a by-pass going around the city to the north.

The bridge plan proposes to use the southern route. In behalf of the southern route it can be said that it would afford a much more direct passage between the Washington Boulevard and the Nice Highway than a northern by-pass. If we assume that these two roads will remain as the main arteries of through travel between the North and South in Maryland, something is to be said on the score of convenience and distance for a route using cither a bridge or tunnel under the Patapsco. It may also be said that this route would serve Annapolis traffic moving northward and would fit in with the plans for a north and south road using the Crain Highway. But if it should be found more desirable to construct a new north and south road, coming in from Washington by way of Ellicott City and going out toward Philadelphia by way of Bel Air, the proposed bridge over the Patapsco would be much less useful as a by-pass than a road by way of Pikesville and Towson.

The thing that makes the bridge seem attractive is the fact that with a forty-five per cent, grant from PWA, it would be, necessary to provide only fifty per cent, of the cost and the tolls would probably produce enough to defray a considerable share, of the interest and amortization charges on this amount. It would be possible, as in the case of all Federal-aid roads, to secure a Federal contribution to the construction of a northern by-pass, but there would be no" tolls on such a road, and it would in no degree be a self-liquidating project. This advantage is not to be regarded as conclusive, however. Aside from any question as to the effect of a bridge on shipping, it is important to see that the huge investment for a bridge or a tunnel under the Pa Nevertheless, to the confirmed house holder, there is something vaguely irri tating about thi Invention. After aii.

Franco's Social Rocoimtriiction To the Editor or The Sun Sir: Just at the time when the North American Committee for Spanish Democracy and their satellites are making it difficult to think of General Franco in terms of anything except murder, fire, pillage end, ruin, news of a praiseworthy social reconstruction that he is effecting begins tc filter into this country. Spurning the Communist ideal of immense houses for workers and a common table, new Spain prefers the small house inhabited by the family that owns it. Franco's Spain believes such a family more stable, more thrifty and better constituted. In Scvilla alone about 1,000,000 pesetas are being expended every month to erect dwellings consisting of six rooms plus a kitchen, a bathroom and a cellar. Bent is 10 pesetas monthly (the peseta rated 6 to the dollar).

The head of the family becomes the owner, is prohibited from selling or mortgaging his property, but may leave it to his heir. Hundreds ot day nurseries' care for children of the poor; in some instances eighty in one hundred are children left behind by' Franco's retreating enemies. Nevertheless, we have often been told that Franco hates Loyalist children and the poor! H. L. IIolstun.

Baltimore, July 17. There I No Parliality In The Printing Of Letter! Indorsing Candidate! To the Editor or The Sun Sir: To be consistent in your sponsorship of Senator Tydings you ought to be fair and square in handling correspondence for and against the Senator. So far you have mostly printed letters favorable to hu candidacy. Tydings, in his broadcast the other night, enumerated the bills he voted for in favor of New Deal policies, but ha was silent about how he voted on the PWA-WPA bills, which so directly concerns the working people of the nation. The Senator voted against them, declaring them to be a means of wasteful spending.

The Senator totally disregard the benefits to the working people nd the substantial benefits to the States separately and the nation as a whole, as to new roads, bridges, dams, public buildings, which these bills brought about, and if left to the States the improvements never would have been undertaken. It's easy enough for the anti-New Dealers to howl about budget balancing and wasteful spending, but a trip over the State and nation, where improvements of every kind meet the eye, accomplished by the PWA-WPA workers, assures any unbiased person that the money was not wasted. Most of these improvements are self-liquidating projects and the money appropriated for these projects will certainly return to the Treasury. The Senator reneged, on the most important bills which have benefited the working class, and that is why they will not vote for him. George Grimm, Sh.

Baltimore, July 17. there aren't many bathtub readers; and it is possible to argue that they deserve whatever inconvenience they put them selves to. War Don't The inventor apply their talents to problems of a more nearly universal, and less easily evaded, character? The home, as a machine for living, I still a very faulty mechanism. It docs not work smoothly in all it parts. Cariet sweeper and vacuum cleaner have put certain operation an an efficient, mass-production basis.

But there are other operation which the inventors have entirely overlooked. Any householder could list a dozen. The one which spring first to my mind is the problem of the ordinary household sieve or strainer. The ieve ia an implement of basic Importance. No kitchen Is without one.

It use are manifold. And every time it i used it has to be washed. And every time aomt NOT YET ANSWERED The victorious reappearance of Dizzy Dean in the pitcher's box for the Chicago Cubs on Sunday must have pleased, everybody in America except seven other National League teams, and the people who always like to skip from the first to the last chapter of a mystery story. For the truth is that the question of Dizzy's arm is still a question, or rather several questions. Nobody knows yet whether Sunday's game was a demonstration of the complete recovery of the famous righthander or not.

Earlier in the year he pitched a fine shutout against his old teammates, the Cardinals, and caused fandom to believe he was as good as ever. However, the next time out was his last until Sunday. If Dean is really recovered from his arm ailment the Cubs and the whole of baseball will have got back a colorful performer and the pennant race may be given a new turning. If his arm is not recovered, then the Chicago one trie to clean an ordinary house hold sieve, that ome one 1 pushed another step toward the madhouse. It there any task more baT.ing, more mad dening, than that of.

trying to clean a sieve? 1 think not. Playing For Time From lh lor.HUa lltgrin As President Benes of Czechoslovakia snjs, time works for pence. Kvery diiy of postponement mut bring more careful calculations of ihnneeH, every day of prep aration shows the picture of war in more terrible lisbt, and every new addition to tins horrors of current wars helps to consolidate at least the opinion of the democratic nations against the aggressors. So, while applauding the ingenuity which has brought forth the head re.vt for bathtub readers, nevertheless I hold back the greater part of my enthusijm for the person who Invents a self-cleaning kitchen tieve. Joan O'Rw..